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...House of Commons, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, pale and plainly disquieted, officially broke the bad news, lamely admitted that Britain had not been prepared for it. Other Allied nations had seen it coming, but not Britain. It had come, the Prime Minister said, "without consultation and prior discussion...
...London. Another even more important change was apparently in the offing. At a Washington press conference last week, Jimmy Byrnes went out of his way to praise Assistant Secretary James Clement Dunn...
...Russians have always known that Churchill feared and opposed the growth of Soviet power in eastern and central Europe. Nevertheless, it was clear at Potsdam that the Russians had more respect for Tory Churchill than for Socialist Premier Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian Communists have been in power long enough to recognize the authoritative accents of a ruling class when they hear them; besides, there is the old Communist contempt for the "soft" socialist mentality...
...door Prime Minister Clement Attlee paused to chat with his good friend, the ex-Prime Minister. The day before, the King had asked Churchill to greet the cheering crowds with him from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Churchill declined; since he was not in office, it would be unconstitutional. When Prime Minister Attlee heard of it, he also declined the honor which, he said, was rightfully Churchill...
...plain people (like Harry Truman and Clement Attlee) did not understand and control it, who would...